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yep

It just sounded to me like Wendell was defending the company for which he works (to them, we must sound rather condescending at times). It just sounded like he (Magnepan) didn't want to rain on our parade, and that they have tinkered with our ideas and much, much more. Given the amount of time between new models, I find that highly likely. As the manufacturer, however, their options are much more limited than ours. Any change they make must be audible to a very wide audience as an improvement and it must also be cost effective. If doing X will double the production cost, then it's a stillborn idea.

There are parallels in the auto industry. Much of what I read here about a special edition reminds me of a repeating theme on s2ki.com (an S2000 enthusiast website) - Honda needs to build another sports car like the S2000! Honda discontinued that model, but over the course of 10 years they produced about 110,000 of them. That is an amazing number when one considers that Honda only intended to produce the car for one year to celebrate their 50th anniversary. It was not an assembly line automobile and it shared nothing with the rest of Honda's fleet. It was truly a special edition and they lost a ton of money producing them. For 10 years, Honda ate that loss - offset by the hundreds of thousands Accords and Civics sold each year. Magnepan simply doesn't have that luxury.

Another parallel exists in the aftermarket for each product. There are literally thousands of aftermarket products available to the S2000 owner who wants to modify his car. I've seen photos of some that are hardly recognizable. A few have installed Chevy V8 engines in theirs. The list of possibilities is staggering. Many have changed their suspension. My CR is almost purely stock, just like my 3.6s. To each his own.



Edits: 01/21/11
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